Twist and Shout by The Beatles

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 6

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Bridge

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Intro

• D – G – A (×2)
  I – IV – V

Verse 1

• D – G – A (×8)
  I – IV – V

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 1

• D – G – A – G – A (×4)
  I – IV – V – IV – V
• A7 – A
  V7 – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 2

• D – G – A (×3)
  I – IV – V
• D – D9
  I – I9

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). Expert chord and structure annotation of the original recording (CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo).
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.